Do contracts increase farmers’ incomes and food security? Evidence from the rice value chain in Senegal
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Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management; Food Security and Poverty;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2016-10-30 (Agricultural Economics)
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